{"id":957,"date":"2017-01-31T04:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T04:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gralienreport.com\/x\/?p=957"},"modified":"2019-08-01T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:13:01","slug":"tgr-01-30-17-the-specters-of-country-musics-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/2017\/01\/31\/tgr-01-30-17-the-specters-of-country-musics-past\/","title":{"rendered":"01.30.17. The Specters of Country Music&#8217;s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9410\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-957-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/TGR_013017_The_Specters_of_Country_Music_Past.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/TGR_013017_The_Specters_of_Country_Music_Past.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/TGR_013017_The_Specters_of_Country_Music_Past.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/TGR_013017_The_Specters_of_Country_Music_Past.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/?powerpress_pinw=957-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/TGR_013017_The_Specters_of_Country_Music_Past.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TGR_013017_The_Specters_of_Country_Music_Past.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>This week on\u00a0<em>The Gralien Report<\/em>, as many are reeling with\u00a0confusion and division in uncertain times, we begin this week&#8217;s show by revisiting the\u00a0words of the late Carl Sagan, who famously warned about his\u00a0foreboding &#8220;of an America in my children\u2019s or grandchildren\u2019s time \u2014 when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.&#8221; Sagan also urged that when the people have lost &#8220;our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what\u2019s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.&#8221; Perhaps it is wise to revisit such words on occasion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/TGR_013017_The_Specters_of_Country_Music_Past.mp3\"><strong>TGR 01.30.17. The Specters of Country Music&#8217;s Past<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to news that&#8217;s been trending this week, Micah and Matt engage in a discussion about the ghosts of Classic Country Music, following Micah&#8217;s recent visit to the grave of the legendary country music singer Hank Williams. Many ghost stories have been associated with Williams&#8217; passing over the years, and we spend a bit of time looking at these, along with other strange tales; one of these, sent along to us by podcaster Jim Harold, tells what must be one\u00a0of the most strange stories in all the history of country music, as well as the study of parapsychology. If true, and not the work of pure embellishment, what might it tell us about the idea of &#8220;life beyond death&#8221;, something even the late Carl Sagan had, though cautiously, questioned at times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on\u00a0The Gralien Report, as many are reeling with\u00a0confusion and division in uncertain times, we begin this week&#8217;s show by revisiting the\u00a0words of the late Carl Sagan, who famously warned about his\u00a0foreboding &#8220;of an America in my children\u2019s or grandchildren\u2019s time \u2014 when the United States is a service<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/2017\/01\/31\/tgr-01-30-17-the-specters-of-country-musics-past\/\">Listen Now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}